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• Shiraz: A Romance of India (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Shiraz is based on the true story of the 17th century Mughal ruler Shah Jahan, his queen and the building of the world's most beautiful monument to love, the Taj Mahal. Shot entirely in India, it features lavish costumes and gorgeous settings, including the extraordinary fort at Agra. Himansu Rai (also the film's producer) stars as the humble potter Shiraz, who follows his childhood sweetheart Selima (Enakshi Rama Rau) when she is sold by slave traders to the future emperor. Newly restored by the BFI National Archive, and looking better than it ever has, the film also features a new score from world-renowned sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar. Extras: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition Around India with a Movie Camera (2017) Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits

• Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water - Complete Series (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £39.82   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1889 and people from around the globe are flocking to Paris to see scientific achievements at the Exposition Universelle despite rumors of dangers lurking in the oceans. While attending the fair, teenaged inventor Jean meets Nadia, a mysterious girl who possesses a highly sought-after crystal called Blue Water. Pursued by nefarious forces, the pair journey by sea and by sky to escape their would-be captors and to discover the secret of the crystal. NADIA: THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER is a sci-fi adventure on the high seas from Hideaki ANNO. The classic series is a preview into ANNO's early directorial vision before creating NEON GENESIS EVANGELION and returns with an all-new 4K restoration. Contains: Episodes 1-39 Audio: Japanese, English Subtitles: English

• Underground (3-DVD set) | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £25.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (15.39%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This sprawling, exhausting, deeply moving Palme d'Or winner represents the pinnacle of Serbian director Emir Kusturica's considerable abilities, and what is easily one of the best cinematic achievements of the 1990s. It encapsulates 50 turbulent years of Yugoslavian history, from the outbreak of World War II in the 1940s to the destruction of this once-great nation in the 1990s. When we first meet Marko (Miki Manojlovic) and Blacky (Lazar Ristovski), it's hard to take these jokers seriously. All they want to do is party their lives away. But the Nazi shelling of Belgrade changes everything and the resourceful duo comes up with an ingenious plan--one will stay aboveground while the other goes underground. The arrangement represents an ideal opportunity for all concerned: Blacky, his wife, and the rest of their friends and neighbours will be protected from the chaos going on above, while Marko and the lovely Natalija (Mira Sorvino look-alike Mirjana Jokovic) will sell the weapons they're making down below. Everyone will share in the profits. But Marko commits the ultimate act of betrayal--against Blacky and the rest of his subterranean comrades. This sort of deception can only lead to tragedy, and Kusturica doesn't spare us the details. In fact, it's his eye for detail that makes Underground such a memorable experience--the perfect note his cast strikes between the extremes of physical comedy, passionate romance, and mortal pain, the insidiously infectious brass-heavy score and the strikingly colourful images. Underground is basically a parable, and doesn't always adhere to the laws of physics. It isn't for the literal-minded, the impatient, or the partisan. It's loud, it's long, and it isn't for the easily offended. It may just also be one of the saddest movies ever made and stands as a fitting tribute to a country that exists only in the hearts and minds of its former residents. --Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon.com

• The Ancient Magus Bride - Part One | DVD | (01/04/2019) from £5.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Magic and lore weave a breathtaking world in this tale based on the highly acclaimed manga. Suffering a tragic childhood, Chise Hatori has lost all hope for happiness until a mysterious mage named Elias takes interest in her aptitude for magic. To survive, she must learn to wield her powers while Elias must learn what it means to be human. Unaware of what lies ahead, he decides to make her his apprentice and his bride.

• Star Blazers Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Part Two - Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (21/09/2020) from £16.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Part 2 contains anime episodes 14-26 directed by Nobuyoshi Habara. Following Kodai s fated encounter with Teresa, Gatlantis s past is revealed, and the Yamato s crew is enlivened with renewed purpose. Meanwhile, the White Comet Empire advances toward Earth, and the Wave Motion Gun Fleet is all that stands between Zworder and humanity s annihilation. Even with Teresa and the Time fault on their side, humankind must find answers, from within themselves, if they re to have any hope against such deep-seated hatred.

• Typhoon Club (Director's Company Edition) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/11/2023) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Shinji Somai's beloved cult film Typhoon Club is widely heralded as the director's seminal feature and considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films ever made. Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, Typhoon Club features a lively cast of young talent including idol Youki Kudoh (The Crazy Family, Mystery Train) facing existential intrigues, budding sexuality, and rising social tensions in the days leading up to a typhoon's arrival. Stranded in their schoolhouse as the storm settles in, the group undergoes an awakening as they dispel all insecurities, fear and desire under the swell of the tempest.

• A Short Film About Love | Blu Ray | (29/07/2019) from £9.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Krysztof Kieslowski’'s A Short Film About Love was expanded from one of the most lyrical episodes in Dekalog, his celebrated cycle of short films based on the Ten Commandments. A young man falls in love with an older woman who lives across the courtyard in the same Warsaw apartment block. He watches her and her succession of lovers until she becomes aware of his spying and confronts him with a sexual invitation.

• Psycho-Pass The Movie - Standard BD | Blu Ray | (31/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a futuristic Japan, the Sibyl System is charged with keeping the peace. Using extensive surveillance and biological monitoring to gauge the likelihood that individuals will commit a crime, the police are able to use weapons called Dominators to remove potential criminals from the population before they become a problem. Confident with the success of the System within their own borders, the Japanese government has begun to export the technology to other countries, planning to ultimately spread the System across the globe. When the state of SEAUn brings the Sibyl System in to test its effectiveness, it becomes a haven of peace and safetyfor a time. Eventually, terrorists from SEAUn begin appearing in Japan, somehow slipping through the Systems security and attacking from within. Desperate for answers, Inspector Akane Tsunemori is sent overseas to bring the terrorists to justice. But when her investigation forces her into a standoff with an old ally, will she be able to pull the trigger?

• Fairy Tail - Part 20 - Standard DVD | DVD | (27/11/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After winning big at the Grand Magic Games and rebuilding their destroyed guild, Fairy Tail's clients come swarming back with plenty of work for the rowdiest wizards in Fiore. When a prestigious client requests the assistance of Natsu and Gray, the boys rally their team and head into Sun Village. Along the way new enemies and a few familiar foes are lying in wait. As things begin to spiral out of control, a wicked force rises and threatens to throw the magical world into darkness. Contains episodes on 227 to 240 on DVD with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Extras: Episodes 227-240

• Katsuhito Ishii Collection | Blu Ray | (17/07/2023) from £54.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Premonition | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £4.74   |  Saving you £6.25 (131.86%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Hideki Satomi (Mikami) his wife Ayaka (Sakai) and their young daughter Nana (Inoue) are driving blissfully through the countryside when the workaholic Satomi stops at a roadside phone booth to send an e-mail from his laptop. In the booth he discovers a smudged scrap of newsprint with Nana's picture on it -- and an article describing her death in a traffic accident. Three years later Satomi has not recovered from his failure to prevent the accident while his marriage has also ended. Meanwhile Ayaka has joined forces with a psychological researcher (Ono) to unravel the mysteries of prophecy. They interview a psychic who has the ability to take Polaroids of the future with her mind - but becomes suspicious of the researchers' motives. Then another new ""newspaper"" arrives at Satomi's flat - saying that one of his students (Maki Horikita) a girl with piercing eyes and an uncanny presence will die. Can he save her and himself?

• The Ape Woman | Blu Ray | (11/10/2021) from £20.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Ape Woman is the highest-praised film by Marco Ferreri, the over-the-top iconoclastic director known for ˜La Grande Bouffe'. His signature edginess was revered by the Cannes Festival who screened and awarded many of his works. And as his epitaph Cannes pronounced that No one was more demanding nor more allegorical in showing the state of crisis of contemporary man.

• Reinventing Marvin | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £5.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Marvin is different. He is a quiet, sensitive and artistic fifteen-year-old with an unwitting attraction to other boys. This makes him victim to forceful bullying, both at school and within the confines of his impoverished home, making his situation unbearable. With the support of his teacher, Marvin discovers his thirst for theatre, and its transformative power of becoming someone else. Refusing to be victimised, Marvin moves to Paris to reinvent himself. As a theatre student, he swiftly befriends the right people including legendary actress Isabelle Huppert (playing herself), and with her help, begins to exorcise the ghosts of his childhood. Winner of the Queer Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, Reinventing Marvin is a powerful, uplifting story of a young man s quest, against all odds, to be himself.

• Underground (Limited Edition Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (29/02/2016) from £8.39   |  Saving you £26.60 (317.04%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This sprawling, exhausting, deeply moving Palme d'Or winner represents the pinnacle of Serbian director Emir Kusturica's considerable abilities, and what is easily one of the best cinematic achievements of the 1990s. It encapsulates 50 turbulent years of Yugoslavian history, from the outbreak of World War II in the 1940s to the destruction of this once-great nation in the 1990s. When we first meet Marko (Miki Manojlovic) and Blacky (Lazar Ristovski), it's hard to take these jokers seriously. All they want to do is party their lives away. But the Nazi shelling of Belgrade changes everything and the resourceful duo comes up with an ingenious plan--one will stay aboveground while the other goes underground. The arrangement represents an ideal opportunity for all concerned: Blacky, his wife, and the rest of their friends and neighbours will be protected from the chaos going on above, while Marko and the lovely Natalija (Mira Sorvino look-alike Mirjana Jokovic) will sell the weapons they're making down below. Everyone will share in the profits. But Marko commits the ultimate act of betrayal--against Blacky and the rest of his subterranean comrades. This sort of deception can only lead to tragedy, and Kusturica doesn't spare us the details. In fact, it's his eye for detail that makes Underground such a memorable experience--the perfect note his cast strikes between the extremes of physical comedy, passionate romance, and mortal pain, the insidiously infectious brass-heavy score and the strikingly colourful images. Underground is basically a parable, and doesn't always adhere to the laws of physics. It isn't for the literal-minded, the impatient, or the partisan. It's loud, it's long, and it isn't for the easily offended. It may just also be one of the saddest movies ever made and stands as a fitting tribute to a country that exists only in the hearts and minds of its former residents. --Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon.com

• Thelma | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £13.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.

• Dragon Ball Z: Season 2 - Limited Edition/Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !Having suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Saiyans, and with Goku still recovering from his injuries, the remaining Z-Fighters must embark on a perilous journey to Planet Namek in search of the Namekian Dragon Balls. Unbeknownst to them, however, a powerful new enemy has set his sights on the same prize: the ruthless tyrant Frieza! Beset on all sides by danger, Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma must fight for their lives as they struggle to keep the Dragon Balls from falling into evil hands. Meanwhile, Goku races against time to join his friends in their quest, but waiting for him on Planet Namek is an army of the most powerful villains the universe has ever known, led by Frieza's most elite fighting unit: the unstoppable Ginyu Force!

• In Memory Of Me | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ANDREA is an intelligent handsome young man who seems to have everything necessary to succeed. But disorientated by the world's infinite possibilities he finds himself in an existential crisis and decides to undertake the novitiate a period of spiritual training leading to priesthood. He enters a Venetian monastic order but instead of the anticipated silence prayer and introspection he is instead confronted by suspicion surveillance and distrust as the fellow brethren seem almost eager to find in him a flaw that will disqualify him from ordination. Mystery and uncertainty shroud the path to enlightenment in Saverio Costanzo's compelling beautifully photographed and critically acclaimed drama.

• Cria cuervos (DVD + Blu-ray)` | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £10.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Carlos Saura's (Carmen, Blood Wedding) touching and thoughtprovoking 1976 work remains one of the most important films in Spanish cinema. Released when Spain was just coming out of 40 years of Fascist rule it was nominated for a Golden Globe, and won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1977. Cria Cuervos (aka Raise Ravens) centres on an amazing performance by the young actress Ana Torrent (Spirit Of The Beehive, The Haunting) as the disturbed eightyearold girl living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, played by an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin, whom she conjures as a ghost.

• Mascarpone | DVD | (28/11/2022) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Malanova | DVD | (14/04/2025) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A